The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word AVERAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result AVERAGE
- Mean to declare silver, English
- Mean to maintain maturity
- Mean to declare how long one has lived
- Mean to state publicly how old one is
- Mean, say, to be getting on
- Girl in time seen to be ordinary?
- Mean woman in bad temper, blowing top?
- Mean to declare silver necklace ultimately
- Area bound by a border, nothing out of the ordinary
- Mean storm follows hail
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The straight part
We know that "par" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case par = average.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does AVERAGE mean?
AVERAGE noun- The arithmetic mean.
- Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- (in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- To be, generally or on average.
- Constituting or relating to the average.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
- Typical.
- Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.